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Lucas Rodriguez, CerSci [Photo: Skyler Fike]
Dallas-based Biotech CerSci Acquired by ACADIA Pharmaceutical in $52.5M Deal
by Quincy Preston | Aug 25, 2020
CerSci shareholders could net another $887 million in milestones and tiered royalties. The clinical-stage startup, which launched in 2015, is developing a new generation of non-opioid meds to treat acute and chronic pain.
by Alex Edwards |
Aug 24, 2020
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has given approval to Allied BioScience for its electrostatic spraying solution, SurfaceWise2. The next-gen coating will give critical protection to Texas-based companies like early partner American Airlines.
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by Quincy Preston |
Aug 20, 2020
OncoNano Medicine, a spinout of University of Texas Southwestern, uses pH as a biomarker to detect metastatic cancer. Its technology, which visualizes a tumor, could be a gamechanger.
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by Alex Edwards |
Jul 13, 2020
The mixed-use social purpose project—designed to boost local biotech, nonprofit, and corporate innovation—has been in the works for years. Expected to open in early 2021, the future-focused campus is located near the Dallas Medical District.
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Fort Worth Biotech Exact Diagnostics Offers Research Lab Standard for Coronavirus Testing
by David Kirkpatrick | Mar 13, 2020
Exact Diagnostics, which develops and manufactures products to ensure test result validity, will now help more laboratories keep pace with the increasing demand for COVID-19 testing.
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by Jeff Bounds |
Jan 22, 2020
Here are notable organizations that veterans of the eye care giant have started or hold executive positions in.
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by Jeff Bounds |
Jan 21, 2020
Alcon gave rise to a startup ecosystem in North Texas that is spreading into all parts of how drugs, medical devices, and more are created.
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by David Kirkpatrick |
Dec 12, 2019
Panda Biotech's hemp facility is expected to process more than 130,000 tons of Texas-grown industrial hemp annually.
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North Texas Cancer Researchers and Institutions Reap $36M in CPRIT Grants
by Lance Murray | Aug 27, 2019
Southlake-based biotech OncoNano received the largest grant in DFW with $15.4 million from the state agency that funds cancer research in Texas.
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by Alex Edwards |
Aug 20, 2019
The Caris Life Sciences Corporate Park in Irving will increase R&D capabilities with a state-of-the-art precision medicine laboratory, create more than 500 jobs in the region, and help Caris continue to "reinvent cancer care."
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by Lance Murray |
Jul 24, 2019
Spectral's device uses real-time data and artificial intelligence to help look beneath the skin's surface and assess wound and burn damage, which can help doctors improve treatments and outcomes — as well as be a tool in the response to mass burn casualties in a national emergency.
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by Natalie Le |
May 28, 2019
The women-owned technology company—dubbed the "eharmony of the pharmaceutical industry"—is making it easier for life science professionals to connect with leading industry players such as AstraZeneca, Roche, Genentech in minutes.
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Lucas Rodriguez, CerSci [Photo: Skyler Fike]
Meet the Innovators: Lucas Rodriguez, CEO of CerSci Therapeutics
by Alex Edwards | Apr 1, 2019
CerSci's focus is on alleviating human suffering and rescuing society from the ongoing opioid crisis via a pain drug that does not affect the central nervous system.
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by Quincy Preston |
Oct 12, 2018
For researchers and early-stage biotech companies looking for federal grant funding—this could be the opportunity to find it.
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by Dave Moore |
Apr 27, 2018
Local startups and researchers can learn how to get federal research-and-tech-driven grant funding and meet federal experts in this conference hosted by the Dallas Regional Chamber.
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by Nicholas Sakelaris |
Nov 14, 2017
The Fort Worth biotech startup developed a topical treatment that dissolves earwax, the first over-the-counter product of its kind.
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